There's an interesting documentary, The Life and Times of Hank Greenberg, sometimes on Netflix Instant; the wife and I were watching it some time back and we we both had no idea on just how big Greenberg was, Just a tall, strong-looking dude.

Basketball is the greatest Jewish contribution to sports. Sure, it was a Canadian gentile who invented the game. But it was Jews who turned it into something interesting. Before Jewish coaches and players exerted their influence, basketball was a stagnant sport. It was Jewish coaches (Harry Baum, Nat Holman) and Jewish players (Barney Sedran) who gave the basketball its speed-the backdoor cut, the look-away pass, hands-up defense, incessant motion.

FTA: Or, in the spirit of the book, I should mention Daniel Okrent. He is the journalist, the first public editor of the New York Times, who invented rotisserie baseball, a game that has transformed the experience of fandom. He took the quintessential Jewish obsession with stats and elevated it into a national obsession, the very definition of fantasy. In effect, Okrent made us a nation of Jewish nerds.

Oh, so *he's* the asshole who started this bullshiat obsession with stuff like WAR and WHIP and all that Moneyball crap. Got it.

There's an interesting documentary, The Life and Times of Hank Greenberg, sometimes on Netflix Instant; the wife and I were watching it some time back and we we both had no idea on just how big Greenberg was, Just a tall, strong-looking dude.

Henry Holland:FTA: Or, in the spirit of the book, I should mention Daniel Okrent. He is the journalist, the first public editor of the New York Times, who invented rotisserie baseball, a game that has transformed the experience of fandom. He took the quintessential Jewish obsession with stats and elevated it into a national obsession, the very definition of fantasy. In effect, Okrent made us a nation of Jewish nerds.

Oh, so *he's* the asshole who started this bullshiat obsession with stuff like WAR and WHIP and all that Moneyball crap. Got it.

Uh, no. Fantasy baseball has nothing to do with WAR or sabermetric stats. They're as far apart as possible.

...WHIP? That's just how many guys you let on base an innings. It's as simple as ERA.